Adjusting the sound level does not cover the whole volume range

[Ingo Gerth]

Steps to reproduce:
Change the sound level. The method does not matter, I am assuming the sound menu slider here [1].

What happens:
If the slider is completely on the left, the sound is muted, let's call this 0%. If the slider is moved to the right, or the keyboard's function key is pressed once, the volume is immediately at, let's say' 50%, although indicated differently.
Consequently, only the volume range from 50-100% can be effectively be controlled.

Nasty workaround:
It has to be noted that the remaining 50%, from 0-50%, can still be adjusted from within other applications. So the way I currently handle the situation to not have a super loud volume permanently, is to change the volume in the applications. For example, I set the volume slider almost all the way to the left, and then reduce the volume in Banshee as much as possible.

[1] Having mentioned that, the bug report is hopefully correctly report here.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: indicator-sound 0.7.6-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-9.12-generic 3.0.3
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-9-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Aug 23 19:47:33 2011
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: indicator-sound
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-08-23 (0 days ago)

[Conor Curran (cjcurran)]

Is this the same when using the sound settings UI ?

[Ingo Gerth (igerth)]

Yes, I can confirm that. Also happens with the settings UI.

On a side note, I tried making a video of the behavior with gtk-recordmydesktop but it won't record the sound.

[Conor Curran (cjcurran)]

This is because of bad db data in the alsadriver. Reassigning.